...and while NZers enjoy the shares through their kiwi saver accounts, the government loses revenue, therefore has to find it from somewhere else..investing the money received from the partial sale into farm cultivation won't bring them anything; the farmers have already learned how to get their way around paying taxes... hmm where will they get it from? Perhaps another bumping up of GST?

I guess we can look forward to austerity measures; an approach that has already proven to turn recessions into depressions.

Gee, I wish our politicians weren't always quite so quick to follow the policies of their American counterparts. Isn't there a lot of cocaine snorting and money corruption going on over there? Why don't they look at the results of the policies applied overseas; America scores extremely badly on many OECD research scores. Some Scandinavian countries are doing very well on the same tests.

I'm truly tired of watching our country follow political and financial approaches that are proven failures.

Why can't we follow countries that have good systems going that are actually working? (Hey! ...now there's a novel idea!)